Each of the past several years of recession has posed tough challenges for Yuma-area businesses in staying alive.Businesses have had to lay off employees, furlough them, cut their hours or freeze their wages. Or they've taken all those...
All-beef wieners may not be Joanna Rodriguez's first choice as an ingredient for the breakfast burritos she serves to her customers in Yuma.But if that's what they want, that's what Rodriguez, owner of Stan's Grocery, gives them.To make such a...
Flour, water, sugar and shortening obviously are essential ingredients in the many loaves of bread, cakes, cupcakes and other treats that Goldsboro Bakery turns out at its locations in Yuma and the Foothills.But Bobby Goldsboro, who owns the bakeries...
It's not enough to pack shelves with tens or hundreds of thousands of books.A good bookstore must have employees who greet a customer with a smile. Its employees must be able to help that customer find the specific title he or she is seeking amid all...
Fry's is doing something right if it's picked year after year by Yuma Sun readers as having the area's best grocery stores.The grocery chain has captured the top spot in the Best Grocery category in each of the 14 years that the newspaper has...
Why would anyone like a place that makes their heart race as they walk or jog up a steep hill, as the sun beats down on them, causing sweat to cascade down the face and back?Because that place, Smucker Park, has a nearly milelong walking and jogging...
Diners typically don't get to see the labor ? or labor of love ? that goes into making the dishes that bring them back again and again to a favorite restaurant.But if they go to Ah-So Sushi & Steak Restaurant in Yuma and order off the teppanyaki...
When you sit down to a romantic dinner with the love of your life, it could be one of the most important ? if not the most important ? moments in both of your lives.After all, you may be using the occasion to propose, or you may be asked to...
If there's something you want to see Yuma's Red Lobster restaurant do differently, speak your mind.Customer comments represent the seafood restaurant chain's best method of measuring satisfaction with the quality of food and service provided at its...
Arizona Western College is, of course, an institution of higher learning. But outside its classrooms, it might be considered a social networking site of sorts.The AWC campus offers students opportunities to meet and interact in its clubs and...
At a time when a recession has hit people's pocketbooks, Golden Corral is helping them make ends meet, says the Yuma restaurant's general manager.Golden Corral, 590 E. 16th St., has been ranked No. 1 in the categories of Best Lunch Buffet and Best...
Kenna Tanaka knows not every member of the Royalaires will go on to cut chart-topping albums. She realizes that not every one Kofa High School's student choral group will even make his or her future livelihood in music.And that's OK with Kofa's...
It's pretty hard to miss a football game that's playing out on 52-inch flat screen, much less one that's 70 inches.Or on one measuring 15 feet. Brewers Restaurant and Sports Bar has screens of all those sizes. And the screens come with multiple audio...
If you visit Jesse Medina's barber shop the first time, he doesn't plan on letting you out the door.Well, he knows you have to leave to go home, go to work or go wherever else you have to go, but Medina plans on you being a return customer to The...
Anyone can climb a ladder, chain-saw in hand, and slash and hack away at the wide and thick tree canopy.But not everyone goes about the pruning in the right way. In fact, the tree can be damaged or even killed in the process.Tree topping is one...
It doesn't matter if the roof over your head has sprung a tiny leak, or if it needs to be replaced altogether.Jonathan Lines and his company, Lines & Lundgreen Roofing and Insulation, can help you fix the problem.The company, which marked its 65th...
Perhaps the word ?dry? in Family Dry Cleaners is a bit of a misnomer.The family-owned cleaning business with two Yuma locations does, in fact, dry clean clothes for customers. But it does a lot more than that.It does laundry, and it does what...
Rich Fraser doesn't want you leaving his livestock and feed store dissatisfied.He knows that if you do, you likely won't come back.Fraser's goal is to provide customers the products they want at a fair price ? and by customers, he doesn't mean just...
You don't have to worry about getting hit with a high-pressure sales pitch if you go to Yuma's PetSmart, says the store manager, Ben Russell.The store doesn't sell merchandise just to be selling it, he says. It sells specific products to serve the...
2011 was a very good year for Hospice Compassus of Yuma.It captured three first-place honors in Yuma's Best, the Yuma Sun's annual poll of its readers' favorite businesses, services and attractions.Located at 1025 W. 24th St., Suite 15, Hospice...
If you're trying to make excuses for not exercising, Joshua Schaubach is not cutting you any slack.Depending on where they live, Yuma and Foothills residents are within a short drive from any of three Snap Fitness clubs that Schaubach owns in the...
For more than a year, AEA Federal Credit Union has been the subject of news stories about bad business loans that left it insolvent and, in turn, led to it being placed in federal conservatorship.But despite the bad news, members of AEA Federal...
As Martin Armijo sees it, State Farm insurance agents' mission is not only to provide auto, home, health and life insurance but to be part of the community.While they're insuring residents, the Yuma-area's five State Farm insurance are providing...
At Yuma's West Wetlands Park, you can let your children entertain themselves on the playground while you try your hand at fishing or nine holes of disk golf.Or you and your youngsters can fish or play disk golf alongside one another.Or if you're...
What a difference a patch of concrete can make.But the concrete that the city of Yuma used to rebuild the playing surfaces at Desert Sun Tennis Courts is not just any concrete. It is reinforced to be able to withstand the ravages of time and use.The...
Four minutes away from losing, the Arizona Western women's basketball team went on a 10-2 run to close the game in a 69-65 win at South Mountain on Tuesday.The Matadors (25-3 overall, 17-2 Arizona Community College Athletic Conference) not only had...
Today is a big day here at the Yuma Sun sports department, one that comes but thrice a year.Today is the day I buy a dozen donuts, lock the sports writers in a broom closet/meeting room, and we pick the Yuma Sun/Yuma Rotary Club 2011-2012 Winter...
I think I'll remember the feeling I had on Feb. 23, 2007, the rest of my life.I'll remember the sense of failure. I'll remember the tears. Mostly, I'll remember the pain.On Feb. 23, 2007, my high school basketball career came to an all-to-soon...
If you haven't heard, the Celtics will be without Rajon Rondo for a couple of games.He's not hurt, he's just suspended. Why you ask? For throwing a ball at a ref when he didn't get the foul call like he wanted. Some say a two-game suspension is...
Basketball and politics are a strange combination. But not for an individual who has excelled in both ? Yuma's Bob McLendon.McLendon was a successful basketball player at Douglas High School in Arizona, and later played for the Arizona State Sun...
Tiffany Minnick has always been a team player. Even back in her high school cheerleading days, she realized that she worked better on a squad than as a solo gymnast. That team mentality is exactly what she is trying to pass on in her role as head...
With two strikes already against him, Xavier Palmer swung for the fences ? and he knocked the baseball right out of the park.Palmer's home run secured a 4-2 victory over South Mountain in Game 1 on Saturday at Kammann Field in the Matadors'...
Might you be an avid fisherman or woman in the Yuma area with questions or concerns regarding your sport? Come to the Round Table Angler Meeting from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday (Feb. 22) at the Yuma Regional Game and Fish office conference room where all...
Somerton scored five runs in the seventh, but it wouldn?t be enough as they fell 12-7 on Saturday at Desert Sun Stadium.
Brandon Mims, who went 3 for 5 with two stolen bases, started off the scoring for Yuma, scoring off a Deaun Williams double....
Cibola alum Myliah Ramirez had the big hit and Kofa alum Patricia Porter was one out away from a complete game win, which would have completed Arizona Western's doubleheader sweep of South Mountain.One hit changed everything.Kyli Parsons hit a...
Voters in Arizona's presidential primary elections are going to have a little easier time casting their ballot in the 2016 election if a proposal in the Legislature receives final approval.The goal of the proposed law is to make it a little more...
As Christmas 1998 approached, a colleague and I brainstormed about ideas to make the Yuma Sun more fun to read, and Yuma's Best was born.Now, 14 years later, the 2011 version is in Wednesday's newspaper and online.Needless to say, a lot has changed...
I find it quite interesting that a large majority of items sold in Walmart stores are imported from China. I also understand a large number of American union workers shop at Walmart stores. Interesting. James Glantz Yuma
I am not a Catholic in particular or religious in general, but President Obama forcing Catholic institutions to provide contraception and the morning-after pill is obscene. I don't care if a number of Catholics use contraceptives and/or use the...
In USA Today on Feb. 7, we learn that citizens who dare to use ?protected? speech and who are involved in legitimate political processes are being shut down by judges and law enforcement in Portland, Maine, Pittsburgh, Miami, Austin, Washington,...
On Feb. 13, President Obama unveiled his annual budget, which The Wall Street Journal called ?a brilliant bit of misdirection.? Rather than cut the deficit in half by 2012, as the president promised, it instead hikes spending and gives us yet...
Although tuberculosis goes relatively unnoticed in America, hundreds of thousands of people die from the disease in other parts of the world each year.Older Americans remember when it was a serious problem here in our country, too, but thanks to our...
Tuesday night the Yuma Sun will honor Yuma's Best for 2011. There are 159 winners in the categories of Entertainment, Free Entertainment, Food and Drink, Goods and Services, Health Services, Quality of Life and Recreation. From annual events to food...
I'd like to thank the city of Yuma for providing free ambulance service for its residents. Rural/Metro is a private corporation that has invested capital in its resources. That is why they can charge for their services. The city of Yuma...
A recent Yuma Sun editorial about the state Legislature seeking final authority over decisions made by the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) asserted the ACC has ?sole authority under the Arizona Constitution to regulate utilities.? Your...
